odds and ends

the weather in detroit right now is absolutely gorgeous. i walked back to the apartment from a friend's house and i smiled the whole way--the sun is out, the temperature is just right for a very light jacket, there's a nice breeze...it's perfect. everything feels so peaceful and beautiful. i suddenly feel like taking coco for a walk.

update on my adult client: over spring break she set up an appointment to meet with me and both of my supervisors. she wanted to make her concerns known again to everyone at the same time. so we did that yesterday and my supervisors were awesome. they countered all of her complaints and fully supported me on every issue. they feel like she's overreacting to everything, and actually suspect that she's racist and projecting her feelings onto me. anyway, they're assigning her to a white clinician now and the whole fiasco is over and done with. but this was an interesting learning experience. in the future i'll have a better idea of how to deal with difficult clients!

i played wii for the first time over spring break. my dad bought one a couple of months ago and he loves it and plays it all the time for exercise. whenever i call home and he answers the phone, he's always out of breath b/c he's been playing. hilarious.

my parents and i visited family friends in new jersey last weekend. this family's amazing--they've been through a lot and have so much faith. the mom has been battling lupus for many many years and she was recently diagnosed with lymphoma. she's physically frail but her faith is so strong. although she is the one who is ill, she is constantly encouraging others, praising God, even thanking Him for what she's going through. she exudes Godliness and she's such an inspiration. the day before we left she got the results of her latest PET scan and almost all the cancer sites were gone after four rounds of chemo. she had tears in her eyes as she showed us the report and praised God with every fibre of her being.